This page contains MP3 links for choral songs and microtonal incidental lyre music (using the measurements of Archytas, Ptolemy, etc.) from my reconstruction of Aristophanes' Clouds. I also have a CD of the complete play, including all dialogue and songs (contact me by email johncfranklin@kingmixers.com), as well as the instrumental backing tracks for anyone who wishes to use the music in their own production. Our translation is also available--I think it's the funniest one going, and is also extremely accurate. Some of the selections below also contain dialogue, including the famous speech of Right Argument. Click here for choral lyrics.

 

 

ARISTOPHANES CLOUDS
A Musical Reconstruction

1. Overture: Orestes Dance Remix (Based on the Orestes Fragment of Euripides). MP3
2. Incidental: Opening
3. Incidental: Down and Out
4. Incidental: Socrates in the Basket MP3
5. Parodos (strophe only): Ever and Always the Clouds MP3
6. Dialogue Excerpt and Lyric Duet (astrophic): Oh the
Spirit of this Man! MP3
7. Dialogue Excerpt and Valedictory Song MP3
8. Invocational Hymn (strophe MP3 and antistrophe MP3): Loftiest Ruler
9. Song (antistrophe): How Many Gifts MP3
10. Incidental: The Arguments MP3
11. Song (strophe): Match of the Century MP3
12. Speech of Right Argument MP3
13. Song (antistrophe): The Exalted Citadel of Wisdom MP3
14. Incidental: Second Opening MP3
15. Incidental: The Creditors MP3
16. Dialogue Excerpt: Wretches! MP3
17. Song (strophe and antistrophe): Wicked Deeds MP3
18. Song (strophe MP3 and antistrophe): Father and Son MP3
19. Outro: Orestes Dance Remix Part Two MP3

Some of these tracks have been published on the CD which comes with E. Hickmann and R. Eichmann (eds.), Archäologie früher Klangerzeugung und Tonordnungen. Serie Studien zur Musikarchäologie 10 (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Berlin, Orient-Abteilung, Berlin, 2002), the publication in which""Aristophanes Clouds: A Musical Reconstruction", appears.

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